topic Re: Function to get a Object ID in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Function-to-get-a-Object-ID/m-p/1046868#M639977 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>There is no direct function in Qlikview, I am not sure why you can't directly assign ID to a variable, since IDs won't change.</P><P></P><P>The only other way is Macro, but macro has lot of disadvantages it won't work in Ajax mode.</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Jagan.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 06:34:10 GMT jagan 2016-02-17T06:34:10Z Function to get a Object ID https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Function-to-get-a-Object-ID/m-p/1046864#M639973 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi everyone,</P><P></P><P>I am fairly new to qilkview and I am trying to create a variable that uses a chart object ID so that I can use the variable later. Is there a qlikview function I can use to get the object ID for my variable without having to create a macro ?</P><P></P><P>Thanks for any help you can give</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:14:18 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Function-to-get-a-Object-ID/m-p/1046864#M639973 2016-02-16T19:14:18Z Re: Function to get a Object ID https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Function-to-get-a-Object-ID/m-p/1046865#M639974 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>rem ** get unique object ID for first object on sheet Main **</P><P>set s = ActiveDocument.Sheets("Main")</P><P>set so = s.SheetObjects(0)</P><P>id = so.<STRONG>GetObjectId</STRONG></P><P>msgbox("ID = " &amp; id)</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 06:24:47 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Function-to-get-a-Object-ID/m-p/1046865#M639974 tresB 2016-02-17T06:24:47Z Re: Function to get a Object ID https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Function-to-get-a-Object-ID/m-p/1046866#M639975 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>As per my knowledge we don't have any Qlikview function to get the object ID <IMG src="https://community.qlik.com/legacyfs/online/emoticons/plain.png" />...you need use the Macro </P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 06:27:15 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Function-to-get-a-Object-ID/m-p/1046866#M639975 avinashelite 2016-02-17T06:27:15Z Re: Function to get a Object ID https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Function-to-get-a-Object-ID/m-p/1046867#M639976 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>See this as well?</P><P></P><P><A href="https://community.qlik.com/thread/34038">Function to get Object ID?</A></P><P></P><P><A __default_attr="1858" __jive_macro_name="idea" class="jive_macro jive_macro_idea" data-orig-content="GetObjectID function" href="https://community.qlik.com/" modifiedtitle="true" title="GetObjectID function"></A></P><P></P><P><A href="http://www.beeye.org/2013/10/15/read-and-write-qlikview-objectids-by-macro/" title="http://www.beeye.org/2013/10/15/read-and-write-qlikview-objectids-by-macro/">Read and Write QlikView ObjectIDs by Macro – BEEYE</A></P><P></P><P><A href="https://community.qlikview.com/thread/104109" title="https://community.qlikview.com/thread/104109">GetActiveObjectId() | Qlik Community</A></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 06:33:21 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Function-to-get-a-Object-ID/m-p/1046867#M639976 Anonymous 2016-02-17T06:33:21Z Re: Function to get a Object ID https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Function-to-get-a-Object-ID/m-p/1046868#M639977 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>There is no direct function in Qlikview, I am not sure why you can't directly assign ID to a variable, since IDs won't change.</P><P></P><P>The only other way is Macro, but macro has lot of disadvantages it won't work in Ajax mode.</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Jagan.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 06:34:10 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Function-to-get-a-Object-ID/m-p/1046868#M639977 jagan 2016-02-17T06:34:10Z Re: Function to get a Object ID https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Function-to-get-a-Object-ID/m-p/1046869#M639978 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>What do you want to do with these variable?</P><P></P><P>- Marcus</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 08:18:44 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Function-to-get-a-Object-ID/m-p/1046869#M639978 marcus_sommer 2016-02-17T08:18:44Z Re: Function to get a Object ID https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Function-to-get-a-Object-ID/m-p/1046870#M639979 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks for your input guys. @ Marcus Sommer, I wanted to use the variable in a show condition for a report in report designer. </P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 14:14:48 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Function-to-get-a-Object-ID/m-p/1046870#M639979 2016-02-17T14:14:48Z Re: Function to get a Object ID https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Function-to-get-a-Object-ID/m-p/1046871#M639980 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I think you could achieve this with variables and/or selections without including the object-id in anyway.</P><P></P><P>- Marcus</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 08:14:05 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Function-to-get-a-Object-ID/m-p/1046871#M639980 marcus_sommer 2016-02-18T08:14:05Z Re: Function to get a Object ID https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Function-to-get-a-Object-ID/m-p/1046872#M639981 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks Marcus, I found a work around without using the variable and qlikview does not seem have a function that can use an object ID YET</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 06 Apr 2016 15:42:44 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Function-to-get-a-Object-ID/m-p/1046872#M639981 2016-04-06T15:42:44Z